Mystery & Detective

The stakes have never been higher...Detective Caelan Small is leading a quiet life, lying low and off the force - until her old boss calls. A woman is in trouble, threatened with kidnap or worse.Back in the Met, she goes undercover with a vicious drug...

By the time Richard Stark sat down to write "Deadly Edge" in 1971, he'd been chronicling the adventures of his antihero, Parker, for nearly a decade. But it turns out he was just warming up: the next three "Parker" novels would see Stark crank everything...

A Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts bestseller. "Lisa Gray explodes onto the literary stage with this taut, edge-of-the-seat thriller, and her headstrong protagonist, Jessica Shaw, reminiscent of Lee Child's Jack Reacher,...

One missing girl. Five bodies. Time is running out.When nineteen-year-old university student Emma goes missing, Detective Inspector Gareth Gravel is called in. But what is a simple missing person case soon turns into something much darker as Gravel's...

***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES*** Whether you've read them all or whether you're discovering Alex Gray's bestselling series for the first time, BEFORE THE STORM will have you gripped until the final page. 'BEFORE THE STORM is classic Alex Gray -...

A mysterious death ... an eccentric family living on the edge of Dartmoor ... And Chief Superintendent Wycliffe has one of his most complex cases to date.The Cornish Detective series'Gripping' THE TIMESThe Beales are an odd, reclusive family living in...

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery Detective Inspector Bill Slider has always been keen on architecture, and The Old Rectory is the kind of house he would give anything to won. But the dead body of Jennifer Andrews in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838319502Author Katherine GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Quartz BooksPublisher Quartz BooksWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250002556Author Peter H egFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

A gripping, meticulously researched and richly detailed historical thriller moving from London during the Blitz, to divided post-war Berlin.John Holderness, known to most as 'Wilderness', comes of age during World War II in Stepney, breaking in to houses...

Meet Hap and Leonard, the unlikely detective duo now on screen in the highly praised series starring James Purefoy, Michael K. Williams and Christina Hendricks.With his trademark knack for gut-busting laughter and head-splitting action, Joe R. Lansdale...

The third book in the Jack Parlabane series, from author Christopher Brookmyre.Jack Parlabane, the investigative journalist who is not averse to breaking the law for the sake of a good story, has finally been caught on the petard of his own...

LIBBY SARJEANT IS BACK'Lesley Cookman is the Queen of Cosy Crime' PAUL MAGRS'A real page turner' KATIE FFORDELibby Sarjeant returns to take on her latest case in this gripping and twisting whodunit from Lesley Cookman. Perfect for fans of Faith Martin, J...

It's a beautiful day for a regatta-until one of Sandhamn Island's most prestigious residents is killed aboard his sailing yacht. Oscar Juliander was a rich lawyer and deputy chairman of the prestigious Royal Swedish Yacht Club. While at first his...

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915747013Author Helen GoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Drew Bradley PressPublisher Drew Bradley PressWeight(grams) 358g

'With its stopwatch timing, locked-room murder and perplexing abundance of alibis ... Readers are in store for plenty of surprises' Wall Street JournalMultiple murders. Decades apart. No solid evidence.A popular young girl disappears without a trace, her...

The fourth book in the series. Rose Trevelyan is not concerned when her friend Etta does not turn up at the opening of her exhibition. When she hears the following day that a young man fell off a cliff in suspicious circumstances, Rose starts to makes...

FBI special agent and cybercrime specialist Lisa Tanchik faces a deadly threat in this white-knuckle thriller. FBI special agent Lisa Tanchik is skilled at handling cyber threats, having recently taken down a Dark Web black market worth billions. But...

Sherlock Holmes delves into the world of early cinema as motion picture groundbreaker Eadweard Muybridge begs him to solve a mystery that will keep you up all night... It is 1896. A new client at Baker Street claims he's being threatened via the new...

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the seventh volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. OFF WITH HIS HEADWhen the pesky Anna Bunz arrives at Mardian to...

A thrilling new whodunnit series, fast-paced and funny, featuring a detective as sharp as his suits and a heroine who's trouble. 3000 years ago Iron Age people carved a White Horse on the Downs near Uffington Castle and now someone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573014413Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'DARK AND DEVIOUS' Stephen King 'UTTERLY ENGROSSING' Daily Mail 'TWISTY AND RICHLY ATMOSPHERIC' Ruth Ware 'TIGHTLY PLOTTED AND...

'A really entertaining thriller [that] like Michael Crichton . . . keeps ratcheting up the suspense' Booklist____________________________Two sisters have always stood together. Now, they're the only ones left.In the shadow of Mount Hood in the US Pacific...

Eliminate the impossible... Sherlock Holmes lives on in this extraordinary collection of brand-new novellas. Marvel as the master detective scours London's sewers to expose the killer of a mudlark; attends a deadly seance that may prove a man's guilt;...

From the author behind the upcoming Hollywood all-star film A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - the second brilliant novel in the Matthew Scudder seriesThe Spinner is dead, bashed on the head and left to rot in a river. There are three suspects. Henry Prager...

A spellbinding concoction of crime, history and horror, perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Jonathan Creek'A hugely entertaining Victorian mystery' NEW YORK TIMES'I enjoyed this - properly creepy and Gothic' IAN RANKIN_______New Year's Day, 1889.In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908434968Author Elizabeth HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions

In the summer of 1144, a strange calm has settled over England. The armies of King Stephen and Empress Maud have temporarily exhausted each other. Brother Cadfael considers peace a blessing, but a little excitement never comes amiss to a former soldier...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641291910Author Colin CotterillFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

In these three stories, everyone's favourite criminal follows his nose and finds yet more trouble.In The Miracle Tea Party, an attack on Inspector Teal leads Simon to discover a packet of Miracle Tea with truly miraculous properties. In The Invisible...

Paris, 1899. Abigail Wilson has received an invitation from Professor Alphonse Flamand, a prominent French Professor of Archaeology, to join him on a dig in Egypt. Overjoyed to be presented with such an opportunity, Abigail and her husband, Daniel,...

Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that's what everyone in Angel's Gap thinks. They have no idea that she...

A missing filmmaker. A stolen antique. Someone will kill to stop them being found. . . FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CONVICTION COMES AN ESCAPIST THRILLER*A Scotsman Book of the Year*When amateur film-maker Lisa Lee vanishes from a...

'This story has great depths of emotion, highs and lows, and I found it utterly gripping!' Christina Courtenay 'A deeply moving story of love in all its forms - I adored it' Mandy Baggot The secrets of the past won't remain hidden forever... Arthur...

A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire's CID with a problem. They have discovered a man's body lying in shallow water, but torrential rain has swollen the rivers and flooded the roads, making travel difficult and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942207252Author A M StrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Bad Dog Media LLCPublisher Bad Dog Media LLCWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The explosive conclusion to the Jane Hawk saga, from No. 1 New York Times bestseller Dean Koontz. She will destroy her enemies once and for all... 'It's over, and so is she.' ...

'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'Sullenly, he got dressed. Why, whenever he was woken on a winter night like this, did the coffee have a particular taste? The smell of the apartment was different...his pipe, too, had a different taste.'Set against...